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3Cs on tour ...
Reports of 3Cs' players in competition, both home and abroad.
9 February 2025
Seven 3Cs players competed in the 2025 Blackpool Congress. Their results in the various sections were ..
Open Adam Ashton 2.5, Alannah Ashton 2
Major Ben Newton 2
Inter Jade Drummond 1.5
Minor Mohammed Rohman 3.5
Stnd Sean Hicks 3.5, Noah Hicks 2.5
Pictured are Alannah and Mohammed at the back, with Sean, Adam and Noah in the foreground.
28 January 2025
Twelve 3Cs players competed in the Stockport rapidplay with Adam Ashton finishing joint top in the open section on 5.5/6 and his daughter Alannah, also in the open, scoring 2.
In the Major section, Ben Newton scored 2.5 while Suleiman Nisar, Declan Johnston and Ved Boganadham took part in the Intermediate section, scoring 4.5, 4 and 3 respectively.
Sachin Osmond finished on 4 in the Minor tournament which also included Noah Hicks (3.5) and Claire Kerton (3) along with Alex Titterington, Sofia Daysh and Kamila Shanazarova (all 2). Suleiman, Declan and Sachin all won rating prizes.
2 February 2025
3Cs players Ben Newton and Ved Boganadham both won their sections at the Wigan rapidlay; Ben scoring 5 out of 6 in the Major section while Ved was unbeaten on 5.5 in the Minor tournament which also included three other 3Cs players, namely Claire Kerton (3), Hafsa Riaz (2.5) and Ibrahim Riaz (2).
8 December 2024
Alannah Ashton scored 6/6 to win the u-1850 tournament of the Swinton Rapidplay. Results of other 3Cs' players are as follows ...
Open: Adam Ashton (3,5), Crystal Ashton (3), Alan Walton (2)
u-1850: Becky Kerton (2), Ved Boganadham (2)
u-1450: Mo Rohman (3), Sean Hicks (3), Hafsa Riaz (2), Claire Kerton (2), Ibrahim Riaz (0.5)
Pictured (l to r) .. Alannah Ashton, Sean Hicks, Claire Kerton, Ibrahim Riaz, Becky Kerton, Mohammed Rohman, Hafsa Riaz, Crystal Ashton, Adam Ashton
October 2024
On a recent holiday in Poland, 3Cs' Mitchell Burke (pictured) visited a chess club in Krakow where not only did he play a local International Master but also someone he had last competed against when visiting the country as part of the England junior squad in 2008 and 2010.
September 2024
Adam Ashton, John Tompson and Alannah Ashton all finished unbeaten in the u-2400 section of the Sheffield Congress with Adam being in equal first position on 4 out of 5 while John and Alannah scored 3.5 and 3 respectively. Mo Rohman ended on 2 points in the u-1700 section.
18 August 2024
Scores of 3Cs' players at the Manchester Congress (5 rounds)
Open section: Alannah Ashton 3, Robert McLean 3
Major u-1930: Ben Newton 3.5
Knights u-1630: Mohammed Rohman 2.5, Claire Kerton 2.5
May 2024
One of 3Cs' young players, Sofia Daysh, scored 5/6 in the Knights section (under-1200) at the Warrington Rapidplay, finishing as runner-up and with her only defeat being in the last round of the event to the winner who ended with a 100% record.
14 July 2014
Sam Owen (second left) remained unbeaten in winning the u-1300 section at the Ashton rapidplay. Other 3Cs' players shown at the event are (l to r) Ben Newton, Karl Moorcroft, Claire Kerton and Mohammed Rohman.
12 May 2024
Five 3Cs players entered the Durham Congress with Crystal Ashton (2.5) and Alannah Ashton (1.5) in the Open section while Noah Hicks (3), Mo Rohman (2.5) and Sean Hicks (1) competed in the Minor section.
30 June 2024
Mo Rohman (pictured right, at the front) was unbeaten (3 wins and 2 draws) when finishing joint runner-up in the Intermediate section at the Crewe congress while father and son, Sean and Noah Hicks (also shown) both scored 2.5 in the u-1450 section.
Robert McLean was also at Crewe, scoring2.5 in the Open.
31 March 2024
Six 3Cs players were in the u-1650 section at the 2024 Bolton Easter Congress.
left to right: Sean Hicks, Noah Hicks, Karl Moorcroft, Claire Kerton, Becky Kerton, Mohammed Rohman.
10 February 2024
Becky Kerton finished fourth (out of 108) in the Standard section of the Blackpool Congress with 4 out of 5 but only after losing her last round game against the eventual winner of the event while other 3Cs' players in that section were Mo Rohman (3), Noah Hicks (2.5), Claire Kerton (2) and Sean Hicks (2).
In the Open section, Adam Ashton scored 3.5/5 to finish fifth while Daughter Alannah ended with the same points and the same position in the Major section in which Hunain Malik finished on 2/5 while Jade Drummond scored 3/5 in the Intermediate section.
16 February 2024
3Cs' Ibrahim Riaz and Kyle Pelling both won their relevant sections at the Swinton Handicap for which opponents had different time allowances dependant on ratings.
Kyle gained his first open section win with 5.5 points out of 6 while Ibrahim scored 3.5 for his success.
28 January 2024
Several 3Cs' young players were among the prize winners at the 2024 Stockport rapidplay event.
Alannah Ashton, Suleiman Nisar, Ben Newton, Hunain Malik and Claire Kerton all picked up awards while the individual performance of the day came from Mo Rohman who, in the last round of the Intermediate section, defeated the top seed who was almost 300 rating points above him.
The photo shown left is Suleiman Nisar (in grey top) being presented with his rating prize, while right is Ben Newton who won the Best Junior award.
19 January 2024
3Cs' players at the January 2024 Swinton blitz competition (l to r)
Charlie Locke, Mo Rohman, Kyle Pelling, Hafsa Riaz, Ibrahim Riaz
1 December 2023
Kyle Pelling and Mo Rohman along with brother and sister Ibrahim and Hafa Riaz played in the Swinton's monthly blitz event for December with Kyle and Mo both scoring 4 out of 6.
3 Dec 2023
Alannah Ashton was runner-up (out of 59 entrants) in the Knights section of the Bolton Rapidplay, finishing unbeaten on 5.5/6 and having defeated Mo Rohman in an all-3Cs' second round match. Mo himself finished 8th with a creditable 4/6 while other 3Cs' players in that section were sisters Claire and Becky Kerton who scored 3.5 and 2 respectively.
The Open section saw Adam Ashton in 4th position (out of 22), scoring 4/6 while Kyle Pelling, despite being next to bottom seed, ended 12th with 2pts.
Click on the links below to find more details of their matches.
3 November 2023
Four 3Cs' players took part in the Swinton blitz tournament with Mo Rohman along with brother and sister Ibrahim and Hafsa Riaz being in the under-1500 section while Kyle Pelling played in the Open competition, in which he finished on 4.5 points out of 7.
Our entrants in the under-1500 event provided a symmetrical look to the final scoreboard as all THREE of the THREE Cs' players ended with THREE points - and which was even more relevant being that the competition was played on the THIRD of November !!!
Our players (right) and are (l to r) Ibrahim Riaz, Hafsa Riaz, Mo Rohman and Kyle Pelling.
KYLE PELLING Pictured playing for England in the 2023 Glorney Cup.
NEIL JACKSON
Winner of the Minor section at the 2023 Manchester congress
28 August 2023
3Cs were represented at both the Northumbria and Leyland congresses, the first of which began on Thursday with Kyle Pelling in the Challengers section and Alannah Ashton in the Major. Two other players with 3Cs' connections were also in the Challengers section .. Ran Song, who played for us in the Manchester League a few years ago and Chris Izod, now in the North-East but who is in our "Where are you now" page when visting 3Cs earlier this year.
The 2023 Leyland Congress featured Edward Jackson (Open) and sisters Becky and Claire Kerton (Minor). Details of our 3Cs' players can be seen via the links below
29 May 2023
Adam Ashton and Edward Jackson both ended on 4/7 in the English Championships at Warwick as did Sarah Longson in the women's event.
16 April 2023
Crystal Ashton and daughter Alannah as well as Kyle Pelling played in the Menorca International event with Crystal and Kyle in the Open section (Group A) and Alannah in the under2000 tournament (Group B).
The photographs below show Alannah and Kyle in Menorca. Put your cursor on the arrows to see more or click on any individual photo for a large image
Crystal and Kyle both finished on 3.5/9 in the Open section (Group A) while Alannah's ended on 5.5/9 in the under-2000 (Group B) competition and was runner-up in the ladies' classification.
Details of the tournament can be seen via the following links ...
20 May 2023
3Cs' players Hunain Malik, Rebecca Correa and Edward Correa all won their individual games (Edward in just 20 moves) as Gt.Manchester u-1650s gained an 8-2 success over Middlesex in their County Championship quarter-final.
22 April 2023
Edward Jackson (pictured right) represented England in Greece at the under-17s' section of the World Schools' Championships finishing in equal 9th position (out of 35) while gaining 27 FIDE rating points and ending as the top-ranked English player at the event.
Further details are available via the following link ...
27 December 2022
Kyle Pelling, Jade Drummond and Ibrahim Riaz represented 3Cs at the Swinton Academy Christmas Rapidplay in which Kyle scored 5 out of 6 and finished runner-up in the u-1850 section, during which he faced Jade in an all-3Cs encounter, while Ibrahim took part in the u-1450 tournament.
The photos will rotate to show all the 3Cs' players in action during the event while clicking on any photo will show a larger image.
Kyle
Ibrahiim
Jade v Kyle
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26 November 2022
Proving that 3Cs is a very close-knit club; pictured are four of our players next to each other while playing for the Greater Manchester u-1450 team in the County Championship versus Yorkshire.
Left to right - Abdul Qadeer, Hasan Adnan, Hafsa Riaz, Vic Pelling.
3 December 2022
3Cs' Jonathan Miller maintained a somewhat unique personal record when drawing his individual game for Greater Manchester in their under-1850 fixture away to Yorkshire. Despite Yorkshire winning the match 8-4, Jonathan continued his run of not having lost in a County game since playing in his first over 40 years ago.
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18 September 2022
Not only did Crystal Ashton, Mitchell Burke and Kyle Pelling all finish on the same score at the Ilkley congress, it appears they were just as close to each other while playing ... as can be seen by the photo in which Mitchell is shown stood up in the green shirt, while Kyle is top right in black and Crystal middle right in red.
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